Olfaction

My feet pound the pavement. I take a deep breath expecting to inhale fresh air but instead it’s the stench of exhaust from cars. I tense and just walking. Suddenly I’m at Moe’s. I open the door and am instantly relaxed as I’m greeted with warmth, with the aroma of food cooking, and with the worker’s pleasant chirp ,”Welcome to Moe’s!” The 80’s hits they’re always playing hum in the background as I stop at the colorful menu for a minute, even though I already know what I want to eat, having…

The Psychology For one who appreciates qualitative as well as quantitative information, the mental and emotional aspects seem to dominate this side of the argument. Until it is plugged into the measurable, scientifically recordable, biology of cutting the frog open as a metaphorical way of understanding the perception of taste, one might think of Plato’s Cave for ideas of taste perception. “Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality,” gives us an idea of how anyone could mistake the…

the WWA. The man, whose name was Richard, explained to Allor about Lila’s special abilities, and how she would be put into Magicae Academy and learn how to control her powers. The school accepted ages 5-20, and the students spent nearly fifteen years there studying and practicing magic, along with learning the regular curriculum of the American school system. The students would stay at the academy throughout the school year, September through May, and come home during the summer. Lila was in…

The Florida sun shines in my face as I walk along the local farmer’s market. To my left the smell of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies reminds me of grandma. The man selling homemade air fresheners smells of pine triggering my memory of picking out my first christmas tree. As I walk through the market different smells provoke different memories from long ago. Even the smell of burning fire reminds me of roasting marshmallows and making s’mores with my cousins out by the fire pit. People…

Reality hits home Santiago Nazarian is a Brazilian born writer who wrote the short story “Fish Spine” (960, Charters). “Fish Spine” starts off as a simple story about a boy named Hua, who sells fish at his parents’ local market. Hua is a very hard worker and helps his parents tremendously at the stall; he cleans, wraps, freezes, and sells fish on a day-to-day basis. Although he helps out in the family business, Hua hopes to do something more with his life in the near future as he has a crush on…

Having Cried Wolf does a lot of work in only a short amount of space. Gretchen Shirm does so by taking on multiple characters’ stories, including different perspectives and interwoven storylines, all the while being chock full of vivid imagery and carefully crafted with literary techniques such as similes and metaphors. She also gives such specific, detailed, and relatable examples, appealing to multiple senses that make the reader feel almost as if they are actually there. For me, all of these…

Welcome to Gravity Falls! The weird town in Oregon where mysterious supernatural activity seems to be lurking around every corner. Nobody knows if this is where big foot, sea monsters, or even preserved dinosaurs reside but one thing 's for sure, there 's something hidden underneath the surface of the Mystery Shack and the Pines twins are about to figure out what it 's all about. Mabel and Dipper Pines are a pair of twelve year old mystery solving twins who are short and share thick light brown…

Smells Like Heaven: Bath and Body Works Everyone has that one store that they can’t resist. My store is definitely, Bath and Body Works. I have a giant basket filled with different lotions, perfumes, body washes, hand soaps, hand sanitizers, air fresheners, and car fresheners. The obsession has gotten to a point where the scents are sorted to the time of year and time of day. Midnight Pomegranate is the perfect perfume for a cool, fall night. The Winter Candy Apple lotion is great for Christmas…

Day 5: Smoking and alcohol and other bad habits that used to go with it, must be cut out… Day 4, would have made no sense, without considering the absolute no no’s for day 5, when it comes to food and quitting smoking. From the same study (Duke University), by again Psychologist F. Joseph McLaren and colleagues, it turned out that 70% of the participants, claimed that alcohol, coffee and meat (red meat) made their cigarettes taste better. So, drink less caffeinated and alcoholic beverages, and…

Discoveries can be self-driven initiatives, or thrust upon us through unwitting circumstances, compelling us to examine core beliefs about ourselves and ultimately renewing our perceptions of the world around us (epistemological). Ang Lee’s film Life of Pi (2012) is not merely a triumphant masterpiece of cinematic diversity but a fantastical trajectory of the human soul from a position of spiritual and emotional disorientation (theological) and into a habitat of inner clarity and gratification,…